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Ulcerated

Ulcerate \Ul"cer*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ulcerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ulcerating.] [L. ulceratus, p. p. of ulcerare, fr. ulcus ulcer.] To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.

Ulcerated

Ulcerated \Ul"cer*a`ted\, a. Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.

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ulcerated

a. affected with ulcers

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ulcerated

adj. having an ulcer or canker [syn: cankerous, ulcerous]

Usage examples of "ulcerated".

It not only cleanses, purifies, regulates, and builds up the system to a healthy standard, and conquers throat, bronchial, and lung complications, when any such exist, but, from its specific effects upon the lining membrane of the nasal passages, it aids materially in restoring the diseased, thickened, or ulcerated membrane to a healthy condition, and thus eradicates the disease.

It is true that such strong, irritating, and drying preparations will many times suddenly arrest the discharge from the nose, but the thickened or ulcerated condition of the lining mucous membrane, which really constitutes the disease, is not removed by such treatment, and the discharge soon comes on again.

The fact already stated, that a form of moist gangrene, resembling hospital gangrene, was quite common in this foul atmosphere, in cases of dysentery, both with and without the existence of the disease upon the entire surface, not only demonstrates the dependence of the disease upon the state of the constitution, but proves in the clearest manner that neither the contact of the poisonous matter of gangrene, nor the direct action of the poisonous atmosphere upon the ulcerated surfaces is necessary to the development of the disease.

His whole body spasmed, as if he were being shocked, and his face became a terrible rictus, his ulcerated eye staring upward.

She looked at him, his ulcerated eye half-open, his face swollen and blackened under the stubble of his beard.

The other was a male with eroded three-cusp molars, callused foot pads and chipped claws, and ulcerated patches where his elbows and knees and shoulder bones had abraded against rock.